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Vienna, 1899. It is 3am in the morning. Ernst comes home to find his brother-in-law Hermann still up. Hermann has been at a ‘boys only’ dinner, which took a detour to end the night at a local, high-class brothel. Hermann made his excuses but one of the other men began to mock his Jewish background and, particularly, the practice of circumcision. One of the officers boasted that the best women to seduce are the bored wives of rich Jews who want the full package. He implies that he has slept with
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START: ERNST: Hermann . . . are you unwell?
HERMANN: No. I’m sorry if my message caused you anxiety. What do you think? We haven’t decided where to hang it. Gretl favours the cloakroom.
ERNST: Well, it’s . . . not bad. I’m sorry Gretl doesn’t like it. Is she all right?
HERMANN: Oh, yes. She had retired when I came in. I’ve been out to dinner, Willi von Baer’s boys-only dinner to celebrate his birthday.
[... …]
END: HERMANN: His hero was Bismarck. If he had been able to choose his life, he said, he would have been a Prussian aristocrat.
He pauses.
If this ends badly . . . I’ve written a note for Gretl. Otherwise, there is no need for her to know anything. I ask that of you.
He makes his last appeal.
Ernst . . . we’re both Christians.
Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt. Grove Press, 2020. pp.46-49.
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